Mars’s daytime temperature hits35 ºC in the summer, yet plunges to -110 ºC at night in the winter. Its atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, and it faces intense radiation. But why the rush to reachMars? How could it become habitable? Ultimately, making Mars a home for humans cou...
Will Heat from Our Dying Sun Make Mars Habitable? [Video]Eric R. Olson
NASA believes that Mars was habitable sometime in its past. The inhospitable desert-like planet we see today was not always the case. Mars’ once ample atmosphere eroded over time, stripped away by solar particles, resulting in the thin atmosphere we see today. But so far, we haven’t bee...
Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for itsMartian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission,with plans to have a sample fromMars’ moon Phobos return to Earth by 2029. Mission scientists say they hope to find clues to the origins of Mars two moons, as well as Mars itself, and possibly e...
of Space and Astronautical Research proposesthat if Mars was once a habitable planet, with water on the surface, the water could have been ejected into space by gigantic Martian dust storms. They say that material collected by MMX from Phobos will help confirm if this theory might be true....
status, which could see food made from solein land on us shelves in 2024. and solar foods is currently developing a portable bioreactor that could brew solein in space for nasa’s artemis mission, which will send the first woman of color to the moon, and for future missions to mars. ...
The future of intelligence in the Universe: a call for humility Recent astrophysical findings suggest that the era during which the Universe is habitable has just begun. This raises the question whether the entire Unive... S Friederich,S Wenmackers - 《International Journal of Astrobiology》 被...
helium core contracts, a shell of hydrogen around the core will temporarily ignite. The Sun will swell into a red giant and its fiery outer layers will consume Earth’s orbit (but fall short of Mars). For a few million years, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may sit in the habitable ...
An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which is due to land on Mars in February 2021.NASA/JPL-Caltech So how do we spot something that may once have been alive? Unfortunately, “there’s no tricorder,” Luther Beegle, principle investigator of the SHE...
Scientists need to time-date them using equipment on Earth, without which they wouldn't have a precise timeline for when the Red Planet was habitable and when it became parched. "It doesn't overstate to say it will revolutionize our understanding of Mars," said Weiss. Questions remain about...